Jwatson wrote:Transferring into H is a different story, you have to be able to get in as a 1L as well, which means your GPA and LSAT should be high enough to get you in as a 1L.

The jury is out on this as well, as pointed out earlier in this thread. There have been H transfers on here that did not have the requisite LSAT scores. A poster earlier in this thread pointed out that the language on H's website is probably just a proxy for "we don't take transfers from dump schools." After some thought, I think that's probably accurate.

Ya, the lack of data makes it hard. on the UG numbers front I think my numbers are "admittable" numbers for H, but I'm not getting in so i thought this was an option but top 5% seems like a pipe dream...looks like I'll never be legally blond, boo

How did you guys who transferred deal with private loans? What did your provider require you to do and was it workable that late in the game before 2L starts? If you find out whether you're in around July, can all the paperwork be processed (considering deadlines and such) by the time school starts?

I've posted my full transfer story in the blog section. I'll eventually take it down, but I think it answers a lot of questions I get about my transfer experience. If you have further questions, post them here.

Virility wrote:How did you guys who transferred deal with private loans? What did your provider require you to do and was it workable that late in the game before 2L starts? If you find out whether you're in around July, can all the paperwork be processed (considering deadlines and such) by the time school starts?

Private loans were no biggie for me. I had to bust-a-move to get them all in, though. Mich wanted like seven years of tax returns from me to prove that I wasn't living off my parents. (lol wut?)

T2toT1Hopeful wrote:PK, I just read your transferring story thread and noticed that you also got into Columbia and Cornell in addition to Michigan. What were your reasons of choosing Michigan over Columbia?

I'm from Ithaca, and I'm not shoveling my mom's driveway while I'm in law school. She's needy. Too bad because the Cornell TLS crew is a-some.

Columbia got back to me really late and I'm not sure if my wife would have gotten in. Michigan was just a better fit. Moving to NYC in that compressed of a time period could have been disastrous.

Zeph wrote:PK, a student who attends a school ranked in the 70's would have to place where in order to transfer to a T14? (sorry if this was answered in the thread already)

15%? 10%? 5%?

and a school like duke says they consider 25% so the student at that school can be top 15% and still be considered?

I am not PK and I don't know if you would want to read my opinion, but I think, when Duke says that they consider 25%, they are probably referring to candidates from higher ranked schools (like top 25). I know that they don't explicitly state this, but considering the fact that Duke only accept about 20 people every year out of probably more than 100 applicants, it is difficult to imagine a top 15%-25% student from a T2 having any substantial chance of success unless that student has an amazing soft factor (maybe Duke under-grad degree [yahoo transferapp database shows that there are some T2 Cornell Ugrads that transferred to Cornell law with top 15-25% GPA], a valid reason to transfer to Duke and live in NC, etc...).

Zeph wrote:PK, a student who attends a school ranked in the 70's would have to place where in order to transfer to a T14? (sorry if this was answered in the thread already)

15%? 10%? 5%?

and a school like duke says they consider 25% so the student at that school can be top 15% and still be considered?

I am not PK and I don't know if you would want to read my opinion, but I think, when Duke says that they consider 25%, they are probably referring to candidates from higher ranked schools (like top 25). I know that they don't explicitly state this, but considering the fact that Duke only accept about 20 people every year out of probably more than 100 applicants, it is difficult to imagine a top 15%-25% student from a T2 having any substantial chance of success unless that student has an amazing soft factor (maybe Duke under-grad degree [yahoo transferapp database shows that there are some T2 Cornell Ugrads that transferred to Cornell law with top 15-25% GPA], a valid reason to transfer to Duke and live in NC, etc...).